I'd have reinstalled Windows. - Roberto Bonini

Bonini went to Dell - The Real sofarsoShawn

Um, yeah. *Whistles* - Roberto Bonini

Windows PC's are so 1990's... welcome to the Mac family! - Tyson Williams

well yeah an xp is - The Real sofarsoShawn

at $599, a Mac Mini seems like a viable replacement for old PCs around the house. Life's too short to waste three hours on a Sunday morning trying to scrub viruses off of your computer. I do with the internal speaker on the Mac Mini went just a little louder though. - Thomas Hawk

Cristo +1 - Roshan Ramachandran

I've had Windows machines for years and never had viruses or malware. Just have to be careful about what you download and run and don't use IE. - Morton Fox

Agreed, Morton Fox. - Robert Owens

LOL. I haven't had any viruses or malware in years as well. Remember the Dell Zino is also a pretty good replacement for old PC's. Its on my buy list to replace my set top box. - Roberto Bonini

Cristo: Yep. What's on the Internet anyway other than a bunch of memes, LOLcats, and food pictures? :) - Morton Fox

@Cristo, my wife uses it for her email and recipes while cooking and for listening to music on Pandora or watching Netflix Watch Now. The kids use it for Club Penguin. It's mostly internet use/and email. My son took a class down at the Apple store to do some video editing, so maybe some very light video editing at some point on it. - Thomas Hawk

@Megan, yeah you do have to be careful. I'm not sure my wife and kids are as careful as they should be. I've got a Media Center Dell in the attic which has never been infected. They don't really use that one though. They do use the kitchen one though. At least with the Mac Mini Apple requires a password in order to install any applications and so they'd need to get my permission before installing anything on it. - Thomas Hawk

AHahahah have you been not paying attention about how worthless an ipad is? read bonin's blog. And no besides he still needs it for photo/video editing - The Real sofarsoShawn from iPhone